Identification of infants with significant refractive error and strabismus in a population screening program using noncycloplegic videorefraction and orthoptic examination

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 497-504

  Anker, Shirley ^a   Atkinson, Janette ^a   Braddick, Oliver ^a   Ehrlich, David ^a,b   Hartley, Thomas ^a   Nardini, Marko ^a   Wade, Jacqueline ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE REFRACTION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; ORTHOPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINOSCOPY; STRABISMUS; TECHNIQUE; UNITED KINGDOM; VIDEOREFRACTION;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MASS SCREENING; ORTHOPTICS; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRABISMUS; VISION SCREENING;

EID: 0037311472     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.02-0070     Document Type: Article

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